U.S. Co-Founder — Product & AI Research (AI for Science)

U.S. Co-Founder — Product & AI Research (AI for Science)Location: San Francisco Bay Area or Boston/Cambridge

Company: Zeteon.aiCompensation: $150K–$300K base salary + meaningful co-founder equityStage: Revenue-generating, 30-person team — now building our U.S. founding teamZeteon.ai builds an AI research agent for real scientific workflows.

Our platform runs the research loop end to end — from literature and scientific reasoning to hypothesis generation, experiment design, computational execution and analysis — and delivers reproducible papers and artifacts.We are not starting from zero. Zeteon.ai already has a 30-person team, a product in use, and revenue. We're headquartered in Singapore and are now establishing our U.S. entity. You would be joining a company that already works — and leading what it becomes in the U.S.The RoleWe're looking for a U.S. Co-Founder to lead Zeteon.ai in the United States.This is first and foremost a product and research role. Most of your time goes into building: deciding what the research agent should do, running it on real scientific problems, and making it measurably better. You'll also own the U.S. market — the relationships with labs and universities that tell us what to build next.Roughly 70% product and research, 30% U.S. market and partnerships.What You’ll DoProduct & ResearchOwn the product direction of our research agent alongside the founding teamDesign, build and evaluate agent workflows for high-value scientific use casesRun computational experiments on real research problems and turn what you learn into product improvementsDefine how we measure quality — benchmarks and evaluations for scientific reasoning, experiment design and reproducibilityWork hands-on with our engineering and research team to shipTurn researcher feedback into a clear product and research roadmapU.S. MarketLead Zeteon.ai's U.S. presence and growthRecruit professors, postdocs and research labs as design partners and early usersBuild partnerships with universities, research institutions and AI4S communitiesRepresent Zeteon.ai at research conferences and AI eventsHelp hire our U.S. team and shape company strategyWho You ArePhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or AI/ML — completed or in your final yearStrong technical depth: you've built ML systems, research software or agents, not only written papersHands-on experience with LLMs, agents or scientific computingResearch taste — you know which scientific problems matter and what good evidence looks likeBased in, or willing to relocate to, the San Francisco Bay Area or Boston/CambridgeFluent in English and Mandarin Chinese — you'll work closely every day with our teamClear communicator, equally comfortable in a lab meeting and a product reviewYou want founder-level ownership and the leverage of a team that's already in placeNice to have:Publications in AI for science or ML venuesDepth in a scientific domain such as biology, chemistry, materials or physicsStartup or open-source experienceWhy Zeteon.aiFounder-level ownership without starting from scratch — a 30-person team, a live product and revenue behind youDirect influence over the product and research direction of an AI-for-science platformLead the U.S. from day one — you'll build our U.S. team and presenceMeaningful co-founder equityCompensation$150K–$300K base salary, depending on experience and scope, plus meaningful co-founder equity.This is a product-and-research co-founder role, not a business development position. You'll have direct influence over what we build, how we measure it, and how Zeteon.ai grows in the U.S.If you want to go beyond publishing papers — to build the infrastructure for scientific discovery and lead it in the U.S. — we'd love to hear from you.To apply, send your CV to service@zeteon.ai.Zeteon.ai is an equal opportunity employer.